With a Lowe’s home-improvement store set to close Sunday in the Athmar Park neighborhood, some community leaders say they would like to see a grocery store move into the site.

Richard Taylor, vice president of the Athmar Park Neighborhood Association, said a King Soopers closed two decades ago in the Alameda Square Shopping Center, and bringing a grocery store back to the area remains a priority.

“The No. 1 thing that people would like to see would be a grocery store,” he said.

Neighborhood and city leaders had worked for about 20 years to redevelop the once-blighted shopping center in Athmar Park before Lowe’s Inc. opened its location about 20 months ago.